GoogleResultsWalker Firefox addon

Google Results Walker in action

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Description

This Firefox addon enables fast navigation of google results, while still retaining the google "feel". Navigate the results using the mousewheel, and mouse over a result to display it in a window to the right. Try it, it's fast and fun!

Details

When you search using google, the results page will be changed as follows.

• The results on the lefthand side will be placed in a scrollable container. Google results are 48 "small" characters wide. The container will be sized to hold the results exactly as google provides them.
• A second container is placed in the remaining space on the right. Mouse over a result link and it will be displayed in the righthand container.

Use a high resolution (1024x768 or higher) to really get the most out of this addon. If you run at a very high resolution of 1600x1200 or higher, you will most likely be able to see the full result page. Good times!

Status

Personally, I need this addon, and I'll be maintaining it into the foreseeable future. But I've decided to try a digital-economy experiment: my development on the addon will be strictly dictated by donations. If you're the first to donate $5 and you want a flashing hot pink border, I'll give it my best shot. Fly me, I'm yours. Updated daily.

Request	Donation
Prevent result from taking over entire window	$23
If browsing in preview window you can get far away from the original google result. Create a way to open the current preview window in a new tab, window, current tab, etc.
Toggle on/off addon (big button linked to a preference?)
Improve initial size of results container
Handle font size change - even provide buttons for it?
Handle window resize a little better
Add Options to split preview into 1, 2 or 4 panes and each roll over puts the preview in the next pane
Make Preview window resizable

Click here to join in. There will be a "Request" field at the end of the process. Tell me your bidding.

Send gripes, hellos, patches, death threats, love letters to: resultswalker@gmail.com

Addon Compatibility

I've tried this with the following addons, with pretty good success. Let me know if there's something specific that doesn't work for you.

• CustomizeGoogle - Be careful - this addon includes a "stream results" option that pulls down more than the first page of search results. I typically ask google for 100 results, and with this option on, it wasn't long before google was banning me!
• The usual popular ones (Adblock Plus, ColorfulTabs, TabMixPlus, Greasemonkey, etc.)
• Fasterfox - This addon includes link prefetching (controversial topic!) that makes for even faster mouseovers (and massive bandwidth usage!). Has this fallen out of favor?

Changelog

0.5.5 09/02/2008

Request	Donation
Toggle on/off mouseover with a big lightswitch	$5

• Updated icon, description.
• Added subtle highlight to hovered results.
• Added hover toggle.
• Added Dan, Gary to contributors.
• Determined that CustomizeGoogle "stream search results" with 100 results will quickly get you banned by Google! Proceed with caution...

0.5.4 09/02/2008

• fixed default "no results" page
• reduced size of javascript

0.5.3 09/01/2008

• updated to skip table#nav in height calc if it doesn't exist (before it would error out)
• removed "get lucky" autoload until I can prevent iframe from taking over window

0.5.2 09/01/2008

• iframe resized on window resize

0.5.1 08/30/2008

• two-columns, sized correctly on first view (but not on window resize)

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0.0.1 2008

• originally named "google unsucked", not very nice

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ancient past 01/14/2004

• Birth: the original (currently broken) perl webscrape version was called GoogleFramed